Show of hands, who uses CyanogenMod? Oh, you do? I've got some good news: your camera is about to become a little more interested in what you have to say. A few hours ago, CyanogenMod announced that the included camera app will integrate a voice-activated shutter mode. Judging by one of the pictures, a new time-delayed mode will be part of the package, as well. Take a look:

As you can tell, a few different words can be used to activate the shutter, currently Cid, Whiskey, and Cheese. We also see that the voice-activated mode must be turned on for each photo you wish to take. This limitation might get in the way of creating a montage of group shots, but the developer behind the new feature, Ricardo Cerqueira, indicates that he may add a setting to keep the mode persistent in the future. The post does not specifically mention a timer mode, but the photo shows an interface with 10 second increments, up to 1 minute. No date has been posted for when this addition will be merged into CM10.1, but we probably don't have to wait much longer. For now, just sit tight and remember the first rule of CyanogenMod, don't ask for ETAs.

Comments

It's a cool feature, but not that original, since Samsung has already implemented it in TouchWiz.

http://www.androidpolice.com/author/cody-toombs/ Cody Toombs

Yeah, sound activation has been bumping around for a while. I think Camera Zoom FX might have had it before Samsung, and there was even something back in the Windows Mobile days that did it. Still, it's great to see everybody filling out these types of features.

http://twitter.com/patrickliu 柏直瓜子

I wish they can bring photosphere feature for nexus phones :)

https://plus.google.com/111019692970182387850 Carlos Sarthou

What phone are you using? I'm running CM10.1 on a Nexus S and I'm using a patched Gallery.apk that has photosphere. It works beautifully. Only caveat is that enabling geo-tagging crashes it, but I don't really use that feature so it's been smooth sailing for me.

Jachym Kokesh Lukes

I am also running scecond Gallery flashed via recovery on my CM10.1 S2. It can't record video, but Photoshphere runs very well.

blunden

PhotoSphere is a proprietary feature that only exists in Google's build of the Gallery/Camera app. This have been explained about a hundred times now. Any proper gapps package should add the proprietary Gallery/Camera app on the supported Nexus devices though.

http://www.androidpolice.com/author/cody-toombs/ Cody Toombs

To be clear, the feature is included in the proprietary app, but PhotoSphere isn't proprietary itself. It is an open format and anybody can implement it.

fixxmyhead

Its been like a year since I've used cm

squiddy20

Looks cool and can't wait to try it out. I just wish the camera would pop up that quickly on my Galaxy Nexus from the lockscreen widget...

nsnsmj

This is pretty cool.

Off-topic, but Cid is still the ugliest bugdroid derived creation ever.

Jeremy Powers

Sounds great, hopefully the DMCA blocking the HTC Ville builds will go away so I can get it.